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Section 32D

Citation
Section 32D
Parent Document
Doe v. New Bedford Housing Authority, 630 N.E.2d 248 (1994)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
1994-03-14

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The relevant housing code in Massachusetts requires that a residential building have a secure, locking front door. 105 Code Mass. Regs. § 410.480 (1986). Thus, despite the broad language in Trentacost, the New Jersey court reached the same result that the plaintiff would have received under existing Massachusetts law. See Berman & Sons, supra at 201 n. 9; Altschuler v. Boston Rent Bd., 12 Mass. App. Ct. 452, 456-457 (1981). The reasoning in Trentacost does not suggest to us that the New Jersey court intended so greatly to expand the scope of the warranty of habitability as the plaintiffs here argue.[9] See Trentacost, supra at 225-228.